Chapter 52 - 50: Army Gathering, Chen Bing Mountains
Demon Beast Mountain Range, serving as the primary habitat for nearly all the demon beasts of Xiafeng Country, stretches for thousands of miles, its peaks soaring and its wilderness dense, almost completely isolated from the world.
Despite the countless dangers present, every year tens of thousands fall victim within this region. However, due to the high value of the demon beasts’ flesh, fur, and even the spiritual medicines created from them, adventurers have always gathered here, undeterred by the risks to enter this hazardous mountain range.
Several flourishing human towns had developed outside the mountains, serving as bases or resting places for those daring to venture into the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
Among them, the most famous was Demon Suppression City.
Demon Suppression City, as the name suggests, served to suppress demon beasts, situated right at the main exit of the Demon Beast Mountain Range facing the human territories.
Due to geographical necessity, over centuries it had grown into the largest city in this thousand-mile expanse, home to a vast number of mercenary groups, merchants, and adventurers residing throughout the year.
Moreover, hundreds of thousands of elite troops were permanently stationed in this city, fearing a sudden outbreak of chaos from the Demon Beast Mountain Range which could bring disaster to humanity and enabling the army to suppress it immediately.
Historically, massive upheavals involving demon beasts erupted from the Demon Beast Mountain Range at intervals, spreading chaos over thousands of miles, causing substantial damage to the kingdom.
To prevent these upheavals, Xiafeng Country had no choice but to deploy hundreds of thousands of heavily armed troops, permanently stationed here to prevent any chaos.
Generally, the presence of this vast army served more as a deterrent, for upheavals were not a frequent occurrence, sometimes even a hundred years would pass without incident.
However, this night, the usually quiet and tranquil Demon Beast Mountain Range was filled with terrifying roars of demon beasts and ceaseless deafening explosions. Destructive waves appeared incessantly, as if a Demon God were wreaking havoc. The distant shaking of mountains and valleys terrified everyone in the towns, who could not dare to sleep and fled in panic throughout the night.